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old, two individuals recorded as 52 

years old, two individuals recorded as 

50 years old, one individual recorded as 

49 years old, one individual recorded as 

48 years old, one individual recorded as 

46 years old, one individual recorded as 

35 years old, one individual recorded as 

33 years old, one individual recorded as 

32 years old, one individual recorded as 

29 years old, one individual recorded as 

27 years old, one individual recorded as 

26 years old, one individual recorded as 

24 years old, one individual recorded as 

23 years old, one individual recorded as 

21 years old, one individual recorded as 

18 years old, two individuals recorded 

as 16 years old, one individual recorded 

as 15 years old, four individuals 

recorded as 13 years old, six individuals 

recorded as 12 years old, two 

individuals recorded as 11 years old, 

five individuals recorded as 10 years 

old, four individuals recorded as 9 years 

old, one individual recorded as 8 years 

old, and one individual recorded as 3 

years old. All these individuals were 

identified as ‘‘Sioux.’’ Orrin C. Gray 

took the hair clippings at Fort Totten 

between 1930 and 1933. Gray sent the 

hair clippings to George Woodbury, who 

donated the hair clippings to the PMAE 

in 1935. No associated funerary objects 

are present. 

Human remains representing, at 

minimum, four individuals, were 

collected at the Pierre Indian School in 

Hughes County, SD. The human 

remains are hair clippings collected 

from one individual recorded as 19 

years old, one individual recorded as 14 

years old, and two individuals recorded 

as 13 years old. All these individuals 

were identified as ‘‘Sioux.’’ C.B. 

Dickinson took the hair clippings at the 

Pierre Indian School between 1930 and 

1933. Dickinson sent the hair clippings 

to George Woodbury, who donated the 

hair clippings to the PMAE in 1935. No 

associated funerary objects are present. 

Human remains representing, at 

minimum, one individual, from the 

‘‘Standing Rock School’’ at Fort Yates in 

Sioux County, ND. The human remains 

are hair clippings collected from one 

individual recorded as 25 years old and 

identified as ‘‘Sioux.’’ E. D. Mossman 

took the hair clippings at the ‘‘Standing 

Rock School’’ between 1930 and 1933. 

Mossman sent the hair clippings to 

George Woodbury, who donated the hair 

clippings to the PMAE in 1935. No 

associated funerary objects are present. 

Human remains representing, at 

minimum, four individuals, were 

collected at the ‘‘U.S. Indian School’’ 

(now Flandreau Indian School) in 

Flandreau, Moody County, SD. The 

human remains are hair clipping 

collected from one individual recorded 

as 20 years old, two individuals 

recorded as 18 years old, and one 

individual recorded as 17 years old. All 

these individuals were identified as 

‘‘Sioux.’’ George E. Peters took the hair 

clippings at the ‘‘U.S. Indian School’’ 

(now Flandreau Indian School) between 

1930 and 1933. Peters sent the hair 

clippings to George Woodbury, who 

donated the hair clippings to the PMAE 

in 1935. No associated funerary objects 

are present. 

Cultural Affiliation 

The human remains in this notice are 

connected to one or more identifiable 

earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or 

cultures. There is a relationship of 

shared group identity between the 

identifiable earlier groups, tribes, 

peoples, or cultures and one or more 

Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 

organizations. The following types of 

information were used to reasonably 

trace the relationship: kinship and 

anthropological. 

Determinations 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate lineal 

descendants, Indian Tribes, and Native 

Hawaiian organizations, the PMAE has 

determined that: 

• The human remains described in 

this notice represent the physical 

remains of 61 individuals of Native 

American ancestry. 

• There is a relationship of shared 

group identity that can be reasonably 

traced between the human remains 

described in this notice and the 

Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake 

Traverse Reservation, South Dakota and 

the Spirit Lake Tribe, North Dakota. 

Requests for Repatriation 

Written requests for repatriation of the 

human remains in this notice must be 

sent to the Responsible Official 

identified in ADDRESSES. Requests for 

repatriation may be submitted by: 

1. Any one or more of the Indian 

Tribes identified in this notice. 

2. Any lineal descendant, Indian 

Tribe, or Native Hawaiian organization 

not identified in this notice who shows, 

by a preponderance of the evidence, that 

the requestor is a lineal descendant or 

a culturally affiliated Indian Tribe or 

Native Hawaiian organization. 

Repatriation of the human remains in 

this notice to a requestor may occur on 

or after January 4, 2024. If competing 

requests for repatriation are received, 

the PMAE must determine the most 

appropriate requestor prior to 

repatriation. Requests for joint 

repatriation of the human remains are 

considered a single request and not 

competing requests. The PMAE is 

responsible for sending a copy of this 

notice to the Indian Tribes identified in 

this notice. 

Authority: Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 

U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing 

regulations, 43 CFR 10.9, § 10.10, and 

§ 10.14. 

Dated: November 28, 2023. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2023–26613 Filed 12–4–23; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0037014; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural 

Items: Los Angeles County Museum of 

Natural History, Los Angeles, CA 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Los 

Angeles County Museum of Natural 

History (LACMNH) intends to repatriate 

certain cultural items that meet the 

definition of unassociated funerary 

objects and certain cultural items that 

meet the definition of objects of cultural 

patrimony, and that have a cultural 

affiliation with the Indian Tribes or 

Native Hawaiian organizations in this 

notice. The cultural items were removed 

from Orange and Los Angeles Counties, 

CA. 

DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items 

in this notice may occur on or after 

January 4, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Amy E. Gusick, NAGPRA 

Officer, Los Angeles County Museum of 

Natural History, 900 Exposition 

Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90007, 

telephone (213) 763–3370, email 

agusick@nhm.org. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice is published as part of the 

National Park Service’s administrative 

responsibilities under NAGPRA. The 

determinations in this notice are the 

sole responsibility of the LACMNH. The 

National Park Service is not responsible 

for the determinations in this notice. 

Additional information on the 

determinations in this notice, including 

the results of consultation, can be found 

in the summary or related records held 

by the LACMNH. 


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Description 

At various times, 226 objects of 

cultural patrimony were removed from 

Laguna Beach in Orange County, CA. In 

1935, A.D. Griffin found one object (a 

digging tool) at an unidentified site in 

Laguna Beach. Subsequently, this item 

was donated to LACMNH. At a date 

prior to 1971, Carl D. Hegner collected 

one object (a donut-shaped stone) from 

an unidentified site in Laguna Beach, 

and in 1971, the Native Daughters of the 

Golden West donated this item to 

LACMNH. At a date prior to 1966, 

University of Southern California 

professor W.J. Wallace excavated 201 

objects from Cameo Cove in Laguna 

Beach. These items were transferred to 

the Laboratory of Anthropology of the 

Hancock Foundation (Hancock 

Foundation), a now-disbanded museum 

that was once part of the University of 

Southern California. On February 1, 

1966, the Hancock Foundation loaned 

these items to LACMNH, and on March 

29, 1983, the loan was converted to a 

donation. At one or more dates prior to 

1966, 23 cultural items were removed 

from unidentified sites in Laguna Beach 

and transferred to the Hancock 

Foundation. On February 1, 1966, the 

Hancock Foundation loaned these items 

to LACMNH, and on March 29, 1983, 

the loan was converted to a donation. 

The 226 objects of cultural patrimony 

are one bead, four cobble tools, five 

cores, one donut-shaped stone, 90 

faunal bones or bone fragments, six fire 

affected stones, 15 flaked stones, two 

groundstone fragments, one 

hammerstone, seven manos or mano 

fragments, one grooved maul, five 

metates or metate fragments, two ochre 

fragments, one mortar, two pestle 

fragments, eight rocks, one scraper, 73 

stones, and one unidentified lithic tool. 

In 1954, University of Southern 

California professor W.J. Wallace 

excavated 22 associated funerary objects 

at the Los Altos site (LAN–270) in Long 

Beach, Los Angeles County, CA. These 

items were transferred to the Hancock 

Foundation, and in 1983, the Hancock 

Foundation donated them to LACMNH. 

The 22 unassociated funerary objects are 

three rattles, two bone tubes, one shell, 

one bead, two stones, four containers or 

container fragments, six tools, two 

projectile points, and one faunal bone. 

Cultural Affiliation 

The cultural items in this notice are 

connected to one or more identifiable 

earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or 

cultures. There is a relationship of 

shared group identity between the 

identifiable earlier groups, tribes, 

peoples, or cultures and one or more 

Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 

organizations. The following types of 

information were used to reasonably 

trace the relationship: anthropological, 

archeological, historical, oral 

traditional, and Indigenous knowledge. 

The Acjachemen Nation, Gabrieleno 

Tribes, and Tongva Tribes (‘‘People of 

the Earth’’) have strong cultural ties to 

the Laguna Beach and Long Beach 

coastlines. In particular, Puvungna, 

located on the California State 

University, Long Beach campus, is a site 

sacred to the Gabrieleno, Tongva, and 

Acjachemen as being associated with 

their Creation account and Tribal 

history, and is the locus of annual 

pilgrimages by them. The Luisen ̃ o 

people, which include the Pechanga 

Band of Indians, share cultural practices 

and beliefs with the Gabrieleno, Tongva, 

and Acjachemen, and all four groups are 

linguistically related. 

Determinations 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 

organizations, the LACMNH has 

determined that: 

• The 22 cultural items described 

above are reasonably believed to have 

been placed with or near individual 

human remains at the time of death or 

later as part of the death rite or 

ceremony and are believed, by a 

preponderance of the evidence, to have 

been removed from a specific burial site 

of a Native American individual. 

• The 226 cultural items described 

above have ongoing historical, 

traditional, or cultural importance 

central to the Native American group or 

culture itself, rather than property 

owned by an individual. 

• There is a relationship of shared 

group identity that can be reasonably 

traced between the cultural items and 

the Pechanga Band of Indians 

(Previously listed as Pechanga Band of 

Luiseno Mission Indians of the 

Pechanga Reservation, California). 

Requests for Repatriation 

Additional, written requests for 

repatriation of the cultural items in this 

notice must be sent to the Responsible 

Official identified in ADDRESSES. 

Requests for repatriation may be 

submitted by any lineal descendant, 

Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian 

organization not identified in this notice 

who shows, by a preponderance of the 

evidence, that the requestor is a lineal 

descendant or a culturally affiliated 

Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian 

organization. 

Repatriation of the cultural items in 

this notice to a requestor may occur on 

or after January 4, 2024. If competing 

requests for repatriation are received, 

the LACMNH must determine the most 

appropriate requestor prior to 

repatriation. Requests for joint 

repatriation of the cultural items are 

considered a single request and not 

competing requests. The LACMNH is 

responsible for sending a copy of this 

notice to the Indian Tribe identified in 

this notice. 

Authority: Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 

U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing 

regulations, 43 CFR 10.8, 10.10, and 

10.14. 

Dated: November 28, 2023. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2023–26619 Filed 12–4–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–52–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0037008; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: 

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and 

Ethnology, Harvard University, 

Cambridge, MA 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the 

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and 

Ethnology (PMAE) has completed an 

inventory of human remains and has 

determined that there is a cultural 

affiliation between the human remains 

and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 

organizations in this notice. The human 

remains were removed from Santa 

Barbara and Los Angeles Counties, CA. 

DATES: Repatriation of the human 

remains in this notice may occur on or 

after January 4, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Patricia Capone, PMAE, 

Harvard University, 11 Divinity Avenue, 

Cambridge, MA 02138, telephone (617) 

496–3702, email pcapone@

fas.harvard.edu. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice is published as part of the 

National Park Service’s administrative 

responsibilities under NAGPRA. The 

determinations in this notice are the 

sole responsibility of the PMAE. The 

National Park Service is not responsible 

for the determinations in this notice. 

Additional information on the 


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